Night is terrifying and dangerous for diurnal creatures. Thus, the arrival of night put an end to the fierce battles of the day.

In fact, when the sun was setting in the west and the afterglow was dusk, there was a tacit understanding that the two sides would gradually disengage and gather their troops on their own.

Lan Bofei led the army to converge at the end of the wooden bridge, and did not retreat in a hurry, which was prudent, he was afraid of the enemy's counterattack. This is the usual method of the protagonist, in addition to night attacks, all of which take advantage of the loopholes in the conventional rules of ants to seek fighters.

It wasn't until the Flying Knight supervised the withdrawal of all the enemy troops that Rambo Fei urged the army to return to the lair on the big banyan tree one after another, rest and eat, and count the losses at the same time.

In today's fierce battle, one squad of the Second Legion of the King of God was wiped out except for the commander, fifteen squads participated in the battle and suffered varying degrees of losses, with a total of more than 60 soldiers killed and more than 20 soldiers missing (the missing people basically fell into the river, whether they were alive or dead at the time, they are all dead now, except for a few lucky ones who climbed up the rocky island, the others are almost equivalent to death), and more than 100 soldiers were wounded.

In other words, after a day of fierce fighting, about 200 fighters lost their combat capability, and the number of troops was reduced by 8 percent. If it weren't for the natural barrier like the wooden bridge, I believe the defenders would have been even more difficult.

According to the estimate of the front-line commander, about one or two thousand enemy troops were killed and wounded today, and the exchange ratio was okay, but compared to the overall number of enemy troops, Lan Bofei began to worry that it would be difficult for him to defend the "Waterfront City" on his own alone.

For most fighters, the night is a place to rest and lick their wounds (which is one of their only means of healing), but Rambo Fly has to keep busy.

He cooperated with Da Rong to recruit young and strong soldiers from the "Waterfront City" garrison to replenish the squads with battle damage today, and instructed the commanders of these squads to pass the tactical information packet to the recruits, and asked them to start training the recruits the next day - these squads that have already been rotated will not continue to fight the next day under normal circumstances, and have a day or two to rest.

Before Rambo Fei engaged, he had already sent flying knights to report to the main nest and the rolling legion. The next day, he still had to send the Flying Knight to report on the battle, and at the same time, he also needed the Flying Knight to urge the reinforcements to arrive as soon as possible.

Turning his attention to the side of the old-fashioned king, the army of the old-fashioned king performed remarkably in the first day of battle, although the losses were as many as more than 2,000, but compared to the number of the army, it only accounted for about six percent.

There are also queen ants in the rear of the old-fashioned king's army who are stepping up to lay eggs. Unlike the elite soldier policy of the Divine Envoy King Legion, the old-fashioned King Army only needs adult worker ants and soldier ants to be used as soldiers, while the qualified soldiers of the Divine Envoy King Legion must spend time learning and mastering the tactics in the information packet, and also need to accumulate combat experience through actual combat.

Generally speaking, the combat effectiveness of elite soldiers is not comparable to that of a rabble, and an elite soldier can easily defeat ten times or even more improvised patchwork troops.

But there are exceptions, when the rabble can quickly replenish battle losses, have a strong will to fight, and can accumulate experience in actual combat, it is a nightmare for elite troops that are difficult to replenish quickly.

The Ming Dynasty army won many battles against the peasant army, but finally lost the capital, and the elite Mongolian cavalry of Seng Lingqin was finally surrounded and annihilated by the Twist army, which confirmed this truth.

Of course, compared with elite soldiers, crowd tactics also have its weaknesses, that is, it requires strong logistical support. It only takes 10,000 servings of grain and grass to supply 10,000 elite soldiers, but to supply 100,000 rabbles who can fight against elite soldiers, it takes ten times as much grain and grass, which is definitely a logistical nightmare.

The ancient rebel army basically relied on fighting the autumn wind and capturing to maintain logistics, which was their weakness, and once the enemy army cleared the ground, it would quickly run out of ammunition and food.

Although the old-fashioned king army is in full swing now, it also has this hidden danger - the rear base of the seventeen auxiliary nests that have been evacuated by the strong men has been greatly affected in grain production, and the inventory is only enough to support the army for a month.

But the old-fashioned king is not very worried now after weighing it in many ways, and after a day of actual combat consumption, he has carefully calculated.

As the grain depot that once was in charge of the main nest, he also knows how to plan the expenditure of military rations rationally and cruelly. His plan was that as long as he conquered the "Waterfront City", he could use the captured inventory to fight for war - he didn't know that the "Waterfront City" did not have a lot of food, and he had the impression that there was never a shortage of food in the territory of the Divine Envoy King, and he would often support the main nest in the past.

In addition, the loss of soldiers will gradually reduce the daily expenditure on military rations. And as a last resort, the corpses of both sides brought back from the battlefield can also be used as military rations - the Northern Expeditionary Army often does this, which is also the glorious tradition of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army.

- I'm the dividing line -

The battle of the second day began as usual, starting from the sunrise after the old-fashioned king's army set out from the "hunting ground city", and then arrived at the battlefield, which lasted more than six hours until dusk.

Today's battle is even more brutal than yesterday's, and the old-fashioned royal army, which has accumulated a certain amount of combat experience, is still not afraid of death, and their firm faith and determination make them fearless of casualties.

And the Divine Envoy King Legion also responded, in order to prevent being pursued like yesterday during the rotation, Lan Bofei simply put twelve squads in the position of the original four squads on the first line, and the front of each squad was only one-third of yesterday's position, but it was three times thicker.

In this way, theoretically, each squad only needs to rotate the first-line fighters internally to hold out until the end of the battle, avoiding the terrible dilemma of being chased when the squad rotates.

But a long period of continuous combat is a nightmare for any squad, especially the commander of these squads, who have to command the battle for a long time, and are in a state of high tension and excitement all the time, and the physical and psychological consumption is very huge.

By the afternoon, the front-line commanders had already expressed a desire for rotation, and they were exhausted. But Lan Bofei, who was worried about yesterday's scene, rejected them and kept them going until the end.

After the battle on the second day, the battle losses of the Divine Envoy King's army were only more than 100, about half of the previous day, but they still gave the enemy more than 2,000 kills.

Rambo Fei's strain was successful, of course, after those front-line commanders returned, they immediately ate high-grade food and honeydew without restraint to replenish their strength, and greatly consumed the already small inventory, which is also a loss.

Although the battle on the second day was relatively successful, Rambo Fei was still hoping for reinforcements. The sense of desperation of being alone grows stronger over time, and Rambo Fei is not a strong leader in his own right.

And the reinforcements he was eagerly awaiting and the army under the command of the Rolling Institute were also in trouble at the moment.